tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post7042145253839033853..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Spending Review Helps Small Businesses ... By Delving Further Into Their PocketsDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-60096991083719118762010-10-21T16:56:22.017+01:002010-10-21T16:56:22.017+01:00Now if we were more like the French, we would simp...Now if we were more like the French, we would simply drive a load of lorries down to the tolls, switch off engines and block the fuckers until the "authorities" give in.<br />Either that or use the alternatives and create massive traffic jams in SE London. Yes it would make things awkward for ourselves for a little while as well and therein lies the problem. The English just have no backbone for a fight against the government.<br /><br />Bald headed JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-64237756729102323642010-10-21T15:17:53.893+01:002010-10-21T15:17:53.893+01:00Do we know how much it costs to maintain vs how mu...<i>Do we know how much it costs to maintain vs how much it raises in cash.I would argue that the tolls should be set against that.</i><br /><br />Why? It isn't done for the other 99.99% of the road system.KenSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-71581454521049680332010-10-21T09:29:52.220+01:002010-10-21T09:29:52.220+01:00Do we know how much it costs to maintain vs how mu...Do we know how much it costs to maintain vs how much it raises in cash.<br /><br />I would argue that the tolls should be set against that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-34766126148156932722010-10-20T22:22:33.857+01:002010-10-20T22:22:33.857+01:00The obvious way of cutting congestion on the Dartf...The obvious way of cutting congestion on the Dartford crossing<br />is to put the cost up to circa £15<br />per crossing.<br />SortedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-13662160996290661512010-10-20T22:00:07.401+01:002010-10-20T22:00:07.401+01:00Woodsy: Agree enirely, on the northern side of the...Woodsy: Agree enirely, on the northern side of the crossing especially, the traffic is appalling. A government-inflicted bottleneck where no congestion would occur without it. <br /><br />Labour reasoned that the tolls had to stay to prevent congestion. They had a study commissioned and <i>everything</i>. Course, we know how those work now, don't we?<br /><br />daedparrot: I don't travel through there myself much, but I don't doubt the increase worsened delays. I remember once (around the time of the increase) sitting for 30 odd minutes next to a coach with trailer full of cycling equipment looking at the poor saps inside seeing their holiday being whittled away minute by minute as the state exercised its modern day Dick Turpin operation.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-27443068306413491492010-10-20T21:41:52.124+01:002010-10-20T21:41:52.124+01:00Well said Mr. P.
Yes, you are right, the traffic ...Well said Mr. P.<br /><br />Yes, you are right, the traffic around the Dartford crossing is very bad, and it doesn't take a genius to point an accusing figure at the toll booths. <br /><br />Is it me, or has it got noticably worse since the toll went from £1 to £1.50? Personally, it takes me at least an extra 10 to 20 seconds to get the right change ready for the £1.50 toll when compared to the much simpler £1 toll.<br /><br />Imagine that 10 to 20 second delay multiplied by hundreds of cars per hour for each toll booth and you get delays of many minutes building up in one hour alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-31669924284454398982010-10-20T21:37:50.911+01:002010-10-20T21:37:50.911+01:00We travel a number of times each year from the mid...We travel a number of times each year from the midlands via the M40 and M25 to kent and back. The 'alternative' - such as it is - is take the opposite direction of the M25 and add to the conjestion past Heathrow.<br />The problem with the Dartford crossing is not actually the money, which is just annoying, the real problem is the ridiculous delays caused by collecting it that have turned a superb 4 lane bridge into a car park.Woodsy42https://www.blogger.com/profile/12355671210161625647noreply@blogger.com